After a blowout win over Georgetown last week, Penn is ready to put the past behind it and restart its hunt for an Ivy crown when it takes on Columbia in New York tomorrow.

After last weekend's emphatic wins over Cornell and Columbia, the Penn volleyball team will attempt to duplicate that feat when it faces Brown tonight at 7 p.m. and Yale on Saturday at 4 p.m. Both games will be played at the Palestra. Tonight's contest pits the Quakers (8-6, 2-1 Ivy) against a Brown team (2-11, 0-3 Ivy) that was swept last weekend by league-leader Dartmouth.

Now is when the dividends for Penn's difficult early schedule are supposed to pay off. And the men's soccer team (4-4-2, 1-0-0 Ivy) will look to cash in when it faces Ivy League powerhouse Dartmouth (6-2-2, 0-0-1) Saturday at Rhodes Field.

The MRI results from quarterback Robert Irvin's ailing shoulder aren't expected until today, but the Quakers won't be calling his number for the rest of the 2007 season. And although Irvin is a junior, they might be calling it in 2009. Irvin said yesterday that his shoulder, which he had surgery on over the summer, has not improved in the last several weeks.

Quakers football coach Al Bagnoli knew he had a problem to solve when he pieced together this year's recruiting class. In this case, he didn't mind a bit of overkill to get the job done. The result was three freshman kickers on the 2007 Quakers, including starting placekicker Andrew Samson.

One has to wonder why a Serbian rower who barely knew the rules of football would want to join the Columbia squad, or why the Lions would want him on their team. Well, it helps when he's 6-foot-7 and over 300 pounds. A disgruntled member of the Columbia crew team, Stefan Savic wanted out, but he also wanted to remain a Lion.

Outside hitter Laura Black spikes a ball wide. But she has no time to hang her head - it's time for one of the Penn volleyball team's many cheers. After every point, win or lose, the six players meet in the middle of the court and do some sort of jig and chant.

NEWARK, Del., Oct. 10 - The Penn field hockey team hadn't earned a signature victory. Keyed by two goals from senior Meghan Rose, the Quakers came back from a 2-0 second-half deficit to beat the Blue Hens 3-2.

Coaches are fond of saying that defense wins championships. Naturally, it wins some games along the way, too. Last night against American, Penn supported the old adage, providing a backbone of play that allowed the Quakers to add one more win to its season total.

The last time the Penn field hockey team faced off against Delaware was in 2004. On its way to an Ivy League Championship, the Quakers pulled off a 2-1 thriller against the then 14th-ranked Blue Hens. Three years after Penn's historic season, it once again has its sights set on an upset.

Wet and wild - and for the Penn men's soccer team, a win as good as any other. Despite a sloppy first-half, an early deficit and pouring rain, the Quakers topped American 2-1 last night at Rhodes Field.

After starting the first three games of the season, it became clear that Robert Irvin's right shoulder had never fully recovered from offseason surgery, and now it looks like Irvin could be shelved for the remainder of the season.

This year's edition of The Line had everything Penn basketball - the fans, the Palestra, the cheerleaders - except for the team itself. The annual October event at which fans sleep overnight at the historic arena to get season tickets was held on Friday and Saturday last weekend, but none of the players or coaches made an official appearance.

Yale's Mike McLeod had an off game, by his standards, against Dartmouth on Saturday. The Ivy League's most dangerous offensive threat carried the ball 27 times for 155 yards and one touchdown in the Bulldogs' 50-10 thrashing of the Big Green, 33 yards short of his season average per game.

Penn unloaded an offensive onslaught on the hapless Hoyas, scoring five touchdowns before halftime with an ease that senior quarterback Bryan Walker credited to the offensive line setting the tempo and keeping the Georgetown pass-rush in check.

If you asked Marquise Liverpool in early 2004 where he thought he would be in three years, the Temple football practice facility at 11th and Diamond Streets wouldn't have even been a blip on the radar. If the multi-sport athlete out of Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.

With the 1977 and 2002 Penn championship teams in town to be honored for their past achievements, the current Penn volleyball team gave the alumnae plenty to smile about. Friday, the Quakers swept Cornell, the defending champions, (30-28, 30-24, 30-26) and Columbia (30-9, 30-21, 30-21).